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Speaking as a TOS purist, I think that just as nuBSG was a 9/11 series, TOS was very much a Cold War show. Even more than it was Mormons in Space, it was a late-seventies hawkish nightmare scenario of a universal Communist takeover.

TOS was utterly "of its time" and even if Richard Hatch does get to make his follow-up it will be a nostalgia project. As such, it could sustain a single movie but not a series.

^ Of course both versions were of their time. You could not make a TOS-style BSG today, and you sure couldn't have made a nuBSG-ish version back in the 70's. It doesn't make one show more 'real' than the other, it's just a product of the times, nothing more. They say every decade gets the movies it deserves - the same thing applies to TV.

That being said, I totally love the idea of The Second Coming and it still pisses me off that Hatch didn't get to expand it. The fact that he just made that one little bit of it, though, is amazing. He paid for the whole thing out of his own pocket, didn't he?

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Yep. Almost financially ruined him, from what I remember hearing. IIRC, things were still in flux back then over who owned the property - Glen Larson still owned the movie rights and I don't think Universal really took any of it too seriously. The Singer/DeSanto effort back in 2000 looked like it might have finally followed in those footsteps, but a Perfect Storm of the events of 9/11, a split between Universal and MGM (also in 2001), Vivendi entering the mix and several other factors muddied the waters and halted that production for good, and killed any hopes of a continuation series. It wasn't until things settled down a couple of years later that BSG was resurrected, but in a totally different direction as a reboot. The rest is history...

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